Now, as a non-believer, I unabashedly love the genre of religious horror. Show me someone possessed by a demon, or an evil flying angel, or an unfortunate victim getting thrown down the stairs by an a…
On Halloween night, after a horrific commute, I decided to hunker down and stay at home rather than go out. I just so happened to have a copy of Annabelle: Creation to watch. Perfect! A little bit of …
It’s not campy or colorful, but gorgeously dark and gothic and shadowy, like a black-and-white technicolor movie.
Ron Perlman, who last donned mucho prosthetic make-up as Vincent in the cult-hit TV s…
Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known guy who made that movie where Mir…
In a sense, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren helped spawn the modern horror movie. After all, it was they who documented the murders at the house in Amityville, a real-life horror tale …
Molly Hartley (Sarah Lind) was once a haunted girl in high school (see The Haunting of Molly Hartley... which I, myself, did not see). It's now six years later, she is 24, super-smart, and just made p…
Sadly, Seventh Son isn’t even one of those spectacularly campy, so-bad-it’s-good misfires, redeemed by unintentional humor or deliciously over-the-top performances. This one misses the mark by such a …
A minor breakaway star from the hit horror film The Conjuring, Annabelle was a creepy CREEPY possessed doll the proved to be such trouble that she is now (in reality) locked up in a carefully monitore…
I'm a sucker for religious horror films, from possession to demon dolls to angels falling to earth. When I saw the ads for Horns, showing That Nice Daniel Radcliffe bedeviled by the horns he has sprou…
Hey kids! Look what's out just in time for Halloween—it's the new Amityville Horror! What the world really needs is an Amityville movie at least every five years, and I just don't know what we'll do i…
So said my pal Tim, as we sat stone-faced, and more than a little appalled, watching a scene in Exorcist: The Beginning as a boy got ripped and gnawed-on by a pack of hyenas. In a scene that goes on w…
I can only guess that The Mortal Instruments series of books is much better than this film. After all, the story seems to pick and choose from the hot genres, throwing in demon-hunters, vampires, were…